# kaal:claim:2732915-006

**Claim.** Because private fund advisers prefer confidentiality and generally oppose publicity, most do not respond to survey questions, which makes obtaining a substantial effective sample size for survey studies of this industry difficult.

**Type.** mechanism  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- survey research targeting private fund advisers

**Source quote.**

> Most private fund advisers do not respond to survey questions so obtaining a substantial effective sample size for survey studies with private fund advisers is difficult.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *The Private Fund Industry Five Years after the Dodd-Frank Act – A Survey Study* (2016), III. Methodology, page 16

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, The Private Fund Industry Five Years after the Dodd-Frank Act – A Survey Study (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2732915

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**Failure mode.** Confidentiality driven nonresponse  (family: sample-and-selection-bias)

**Topics.** empirical-evidence, research-methods, private-funds

**Keywords.** survey-methodology, sampling-constraints, private-fund-advisers, confidentiality

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- restated_by: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2739479-017
- restates: https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/2150377-013

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